KARACHI, June 23: The scheduled October general elections are very important and religious parties will take part in it from the platform of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal.

This was stated by Jamaat-i-Islami secretary-general Syed Munawwar Hasan at a one-day congregation of the party workers at Idara Noor-i-Haq on “changing world scenario and the Islamic movements”.

Criticizing the Madaris Ordinance, he said that Gen Musharraf was unaware of the Pakistani society where the entire nation was on the back of the Madaris. He said the Madaris would not tolerate any restriction on it.

The JI leader accused the government of handing over the entire country to the FBI and giving all sensitive institutions and logistic points under the US control. The army and police had been working as frontman for the US, he said.

“Although the world seems to be under the hegemony of the US, the situation could not last long,” he added.

He pointed out that no Hindu, Jew, Christian or Tamil Tiger had ever been termed terrorist. He said Indian occupying forces in Kashmir and Israeli army which entered the Palestinian cities with tanks and APCs were not being termed terrorists, while those striving for their fundamental rights and children holding stones in their hands were being termed terrorists.

Abdul Rashid Turabi, former JI chief, Azad Kashmir, said it were the sacrifices of the freedom fighters which have played an important role in turning the Kashmir dispute into an universal issue.